Durham program offers healthy ideas for snacks, lunches

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By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

Wondering what in the world you'll be packing your kids for lunch this school year?

Duke Children's Healthy Lifestyles program will offer some tips and recipes at a free event on Aug. 19. Registration is required by emailing katelyn.chiang@duke.edu by Aug. 14.

The program is open to children ages 5 and up and their parents. Attendees will move through several stations to learn how to make Duke Children's Healthy Lifestyles dietitian-approved snacks and lunches. Kids also can make their own Healthy Back-to-School Kit once they've completed all of the activities.

It's 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Aug. 19, at Edison Johnson Recreation Center, 500 W. Murray Ave., in Durham. It's part of the Kohl's Bull City Fit, a community-based wellness program to combat childhood obesity and get kids moving and eating healthfully.